The rock art was used to mark the location of water sources in an illustration of how ancient people tackled some of Earth’s ...
The drawings—the oldest dated monumental rock art in Arabia—are the firmest evidence that humans lived there during a dry ...
Mystery of 12,000-year-old animal carvings found in uninhabitable desert - Researchers have discovered life-size rock ...
Learn more about the carvings of camels, gazelles, and ibexes that helped humans thrive in the Nefud Desert around 2,000 ...
The discovery of huge petroglyphs of camels and donkeys, as well as hundreds of engraving tools, hints at complex early ...
Researchers have discovered life-size rock carvings of camels, gazelles and other animals in the Saudi Arabian desert.
Life-sized animal carvings may have served as landmarks to help ancient travelers navigate between life-saving water sources during one of history's harshest climate periods.
Disputed since it was discovered in 2020, the stone carving has now been authenticated as 2,200 years old, making it the only ...
The carvings, made with a pick, include likenesses of camels, gazelles and aurochs – an extinct species of cattle.
Newly discovered prehistoric artwork suggests how a pioneering sect of desert nomads, unknown to history until now, carved ...